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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

Senior writer at so-called "right wing" Daily Caller in August 2016 advocated Republican surrender to Hillary since she was definitely going to win, and Trump couldn't possibly win. GOP should offer 'negotiated surrender to Hillary', maybe one judge, a few policy concessions, says Hillary would likely be better for country anyway-Jamie Weinstein, 8/8/2016, Daily Caller

(continuing): "Barring a Wikileaks revelation showing Clinton to be a secret member
of ISIS, she seems to be on a glide path to the White House. Instead of
Donald Trump attempting to expand his base since securing the Republican
nomination, he is politically self-immolating on a national stage.
Trump apologists keep saying he will soon change course. But the only
way for Trump to change course is to change who he is. That’s not going
to happen.

Meanwhile, Trump keeps humiliating the Republican bigwigs who
reluctantly endorsed him, be it by attacking the parents of a fallen
U.S. soldier [Deep State GOP hoped this non-issue meant the end for Trump] or refusing to immediately reciprocate their endorsements
of him.

And even if he did win, what would there be
to celebrate? Trump stands against so much of what conservatives have
been fighting for since Ronald Reagan."...

[Ed. note: "Have been fighting for?" What "fighting" has taken place (apart from writing articles)? Who are the "conservatives" that have done this alleged "fighting"? What results have they had in the past 30+ years?]

(continuing): "So what to do? The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza recently posed an interesting question on Twitter.

“What if Hillary offered Republicans one SCOTUS pick?Would that open
the floodgates for skeptical Republicansto rescind support for Trump,”he asked.

More precisely, top Republican and conservative leaders should
band together and offer Hillary a deal to rescind their endorsements of
Trump and endorse her in exchange for some policy concessions.What would a possible deal look like, you ask?

In exchange for an endorsement, Hillary might promise Republicans the
right to choose whom she nominates to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat on the
Supreme Court. She should also be pushed to agree to some entitlement
reform, perhaps in the form of Simpson-Bowles (not the best fix to our
entitlement crisis, but better than anything Republicans can hope for
when even the Republican presidential nominee rejects the need for
entitlement reform). Maybe Republicans could even get her to commit to
putting together a bi-partisan (or non-partisan) national security team
to include widely respected figures like former Secretary of Defense Bob
Gates and retired Gen. James Mattis."...

[Ed. note: Truly nauseating. "Widely respected" Bob Gates is among the worst of Deep State phonies.]

(continuing): "but for it to matter to Hillary, it must also
definitely include Republican congressional leaders like House Speaker
Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (and as many other
members of Congress as possible) who would actually be in a position of
fulfill the commitments of a deal.

Given all this, Hillary might say, “no dice. I am on track to win
this election with possibly a Democratic Senate and even a Democratic
House. I don’t need to come to any accommodation. Thanks, but no
thanks.”

Beyond that, a deal could be good for Hillary’s presidential
legacy. If she can enlist Republican support in achieving some of her
big policy goals before she is even sworn in, why not take it? Even the
entitlement reform plank is something deep down she must know is
necessary. History would remember her fondly for breaking from party
orthodoxy to achieve something important for the country.

No matter who wins in November, conservatives have very little to
look forward to politically over the next four years. A deal like this,
fanciful as it may appear, would temper the pain."

"Republican
leaders have for years failed to think about much of anything beyond
winning the next election. Year after year, the party’s candidates
promised help for middle-class people who lost their homes, jobs and
savings to recession, who lost limbs and well-being to war,and then did next to nothing.

"He managed to prevail—to mount the
most astonishingly successful insurgent campaign against a party
establishment in our lifetimes....He won the GOP’s untapped residue of nationalist voters,
in a system wherethe elites of both parties are, as if by rote, extreme globalists.He won the support of those who favored changing
trade and immigration policies, which, it is increasingly obvious, do
not favor the tangible interests of the average American.

He won the
backing of those alarmed by a new surge of political correctness, an informal national speech code that seeks to render many legitimate political opinions unsayable. He won the support of white working-class
voters whose social and economic position had been declining for a
generation....In
foreign policy, the liberal interventionists who would staff a Hillary
administration line up seamlessly with neoconservatives in support of
continued American “hegemony.” Opposition to this establishment consensus has been advancing, by fits and starts, and is now too large to be ignored."...

“Nattering nabobs of negativism,” “vicars of vacillation,”
“pusillanimous pussyfooters,” “the decadent few,” “ideological eunuchs,”
“the effete corps of impudent snobs,” or “the hopeless, hysterical
hypochondriacs of history” – take your pick, because they all apply
about equally well to each and every one of them.

In just seven months of campaigning, Trump already has more Americans
listening to a Republican message than the entire Gang of 22 could
muster over decades. Trump understands that before you can advance the
ball, you have to convince people to take time from their busy lives to
listen. No one on the GOP side since Ronald Reagan has accomplished that
like Trump.

No one else has come close, and certainly no one from that “effete corps of impudent snobs” to which the National Review thinks we should defer.

The Gang of 22 had their chance. They’ve done a lot of bitching over the years, and it paid well for some
.But Americans care about results. They can plainly see that all of
the empty talk from the Gang of 22 got us eight years of Barack Obama,
and a loss in pretty much every conservative battle there was to lose.......... At the same time when Americans look at Donald Trump’s life they get a
lot of assurance that here is finally a man who shares their focus on
actually getting results. And Trump returns the respect by recognizing
regular hard-working Americans are a lot smarter than any of the
“ideological eunuchs” in all of their pontificating glory.